What's happening in Russia/Moscow rn. A pretty random thread:
Igor Baikov @Killa_ru·11. maalisk.Vastauksena käyttäjälle @Killa_ruI can't say much about people's feelings because now you can get up to 15 years in jail for criticizing this 'special operation', calling it a war (yes, you can't), 'spreading fakes', supporting sanctions or calling for protests. Have to blink twice.2
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A new law forces you to exchange 80% of USD/EUR you got since Jan, 1st as salary to our currency. Now you can only cash out $10k in 6 months in banks, everything over gets converted to ruble w/ bad exchange rate.
Can't travel with >$10k USD in cash. Can't transfer USD/EUR to your own foreign bank accounts. Can't transfer over $5k/mo to relatives abroad. This will go through September, if nothing changes.
They announced that they will spend $8.5 billions to buy out stocks of Russian companies. More gov-owned companies. Cool. Now they also announced that the companies can issue buy-backs (those were heavily regulated before).
Now there are talks about nationalization of companies that are stopping any activities in Russia. Maybe these are just talks to make them come back, but it does look scary. If it happens - we'll get no investments and nobody will want to do any business with us for many years
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